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J. W. FAXLANGER. PRINTERS RULE GASB.

No. 578,321. Patented Man 9, 1897.

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JOSEPH FAXLANGER, OF BUFFALO, NEWV YORK.

PRINTERS RU LE-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 578,321, dated March 9, 1897.

Application filed March 6, 1896.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. FAXLANGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Rule Cases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and improved printers rule-case, whereby space is economized, the rules prevented from falling over, and the work of the composition and distribution greatly facilitated, all of which will be fully and clearly hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a top plan view of my improved printers rule-case, showing a suitable arrangement of the various-sized boxes. Fig. 2 represents a diagrammatic plan view for illustrating the manner in which the labor-saving rule is prevented from falling over. Fig. 3 represents a vertical longitudinal section on or about line a a, Fig. 1.

My invention is designed as an improvement over the old and well-known device or case for holding thin strips of printers rule or other similar material; and the main object of the invention is to hold the strips of rule in a substantially upright position, so that they can be easily got at when required.

Referring to the drawings in detail, 1 represents the surrounding frame of the case, and 2 the bottom of the same.

The printers rule referred to consists of various standard lengths, and is therefore known to the printers trade as labor-saving rule.

The rule-holding boxes are made of different sizes corresponding with the different lengths of rules, the box or compartment 3, for instance, being adapted to receive rules known as forty-nine-em rules, the compartment 4 eighteen em rules, and so on through the several series of compartments. In the old construction of cases for this purpose very often rules of several sizes get into a compartment intended for rules of one size only, which causes confusion and a waste of time in their use. By my improved construction this cannot happen, because it is absolutely necessary in order to make the device operative that all rules of one length should be put into the compartment or compart- $erial No. 582,039. (No model.)

ments adapted to receive them, for the reason that they will not operate in any other compartment. The boxes or compartments are made either in the form of a rhombus (shown at 6 in Fig. 1) or in the form of a rhomboid. (Shown at 7, same figure.)

The object of the above construction will be better understood by reference to Fig. 2, in which it will be noticed that although the side walls 8 and 8 of the compartment are perfectly parallel they both extend in a diagonal direction from the front and rear parallel walls 9 and 9 of the compartment.

The rule or rules being set up against one of the walls 9 or 9, the rear wall 9, for instance, the diagonal side wall 8 will then keep it from falling over forward, because the position of the rule, if it could be turned over seas to lie flat on the bottom of the case, would be' the position shown by the dotted lines 10 in said Fig. 2. This, it will be readily seen, would be an impossibility because of the oblique construction of the side wall 8*. This is a very important advantage for the reason that it leaves the rules all standing up on their edges, so that they can be easily and quickly picked out by the fingers, thereby saving time in their use. Another reason is that if av rule should be al lowed to fall flat on the bottom of the case some of them, being very thin, would require a knife or other similar instrument to get them up out of the compartment, which in many instances would injure or destroy (for printing) the printing edge of the rule, and thereby render it useless.

The square boxes 1-2 are used for such small pieces of rule as cannot be readily picked up by the fingers out of a compartment made small enough to receive them or for any odd sizes of very short pieces of rule.

It will be noticed by reference to Fig. 1 that the thin square or rectangular strips of brass technically termed rule fit snugly into their respective compartments, as shown incompartments numbered 18-em, 21-em, and 31-em.

I am aware that heretofore printers cases have been formed with inclined sides. There fore I do not claim such broadly 3 but What I do claim is- 1. In a printers rule-case, a box or com- 10 rules varying correspondingly in size, and

adapted to fit snnglyin their respective compartments,each compartment having the form of an oblique-angled parallelogram, to prevent the rules from falling flat as and for the purposes described.

JOSEPH WV. FAXLANGER.

Witnesses:

JAMES SANGSTER, L. M. SPONG. 

